Posted by: Gary Lawrence Murphy
on September 27, 2002 08:34 PM
After using Linux laptops for nearly 6 years, I have to say that the minimally useful hardware is the PII/300<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... but that platform is still pretty common for trade-in laptops and should come in at half your $999 cost.
Perhaps, like the recycled desktop/server market, there's opportunity for people to locally refurbish laptops with Linux and resell them.
The important thing is not to go too low or you just give out the wrong message. We installed Peanut Linux on my daughter's P1/133, but it's only marginally functional, not really enough to inspire using the thing, and that gives Linux a bad reputation. If I was forced to say something positive about Win95, it's that, on very limited hardware, it works no worse than it does on a big machine, whereas KDE/Gnome, even Enlightenment are not for the light of RAM or the light of HD space; before the flames happen, face it, you have to be a geek to want to use icewm or fvwm.
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What's wrong with PII laptops?
Posted by: Gary Lawrence Murphy on September 27, 2002 08:34 PMPerhaps, like the recycled desktop/server market, there's opportunity for people to locally refurbish laptops with Linux and resell them.
The important thing is not to go too low or you just give out the wrong message. We installed Peanut Linux on my daughter's P1/133, but it's only marginally functional, not really enough to inspire using the thing, and that gives Linux a bad reputation. If I was forced to say something positive about Win95, it's that, on very limited hardware, it works no worse than it does on a big machine, whereas KDE/Gnome, even Enlightenment are not for the light of RAM or the light of HD space; before the flames happen, face it, you have to be a geek to want to use icewm or fvwm.
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